Subway people

New York-based artist and storyteller Ourit Ben-Haim’s Underground New York Public Library project first began as sketches of rough photographs of people reading on trains. The photos are unrefined and voyeuristic, like reading over a stranger’s shoulder. Read more at http://www.petapixel.com/2012/07/03/street-photos-of-commuters-reading-on-the-subway/#oDogc0tSobuDfuBd.99

In her brilliant blog, the Underground New York Public Library, Ourit Ben-Haim takes pictures of people reading on the subway – everything from The Great Gatsby to Star Wars to the Bible.

Go ride a subway

At this relatively early stage of the outbreak in New York City, few people we wearing masks still—probably fewer than 1 in 100 people—but the subway often seemed a little emptier already.

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Falling for a straphanger reading The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon on the subway in New York.